Is it a good idea to practice russian by reading english websites translated into russian via google translate?
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posted by mnemonic
on Jul 10, 2012 -
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There's a "Trimet Respects Civil Rights" notice on all the public transit vehicles in Portland. It's one straightforward paragraph translated into 6 languages. Why is it that in the [what I believe to be] Russian translation, the word "Trimet" only appears once, whereas in the 5 other languages it appears twice?
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posted by desertface
on Apr 14, 2011 -
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A guy in Tallinn pointed at me and said something that sounded like "satavaziru!" (emphasis on the "zi" syllable). What might that mean?
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posted by mokudekiru
on Apr 13, 2011 -
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How much should we expect to pay for Russian to English translation services?
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posted by macfly
on May 22, 2010 -
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How to translate the scientific/statistical English words "accuracy" and "precision" into scientific/statistical Russian?
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posted by ZenMasterThis
on Aug 14, 2009 -
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Dirty Russian translation please. I have a Russian co-worker who showed me a russian word (with english spelling) but won't tell me what it means. Words can be found inside. Can you translate?
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posted by Roger Dodger
on Feb 6, 2008 -
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Russian-translation-filter: Please help me understand the linguistic nuances in Tolstoy's famous quote, "There was something terribly lacking between what I felt and what I could do." (
here in English) How accurate is this translation in your view? What is missing from it? What if anything does it add which is not there in Russian?
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posted by rudster
on Dec 19, 2007 -
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Russian to English translation of some interesting communist posters from 1963.
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posted by kmel
on Jan 2, 2006 -
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CyrillicFilter: While parked on a side street eating my lunch in between meetings, I spotted
these bumper stickers, in what I presume to be Russian. Translations, anyone?
posted by baltimore
on Jul 31, 2005 -
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